HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

AdamGibbins

1,685 karma · joined March 10, 2009

I automate systems. London, UK.

https://www.adamgibbins.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/adamgibbins; my proof: https://keybase.io/adamgibbins/sigs/yfZi4Dg_Oy8D1xq2oIRf143FbTZlyaVHCoB55kT46sQ ]

submissionscomments
AdamGibbins··on JetKVM Mini
https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/kvm do some that might be suitable, they produce some of the highest end desktop-spec KVMs I know of. They're not cheap though.
AdamGibbins··on JetKVM Mini
Three Letter Acronym
AdamGibbins··on Searching for the best silicone USB cable
Doesn't suit OPs demands as power only, but moved most my USB-C power cables to Anker Nano recently. They sound like described, lovely. Super flexible, don't tangle, nice weight to them - very well built. Nicest cables I've ever owned and an upgrade from prior Anker ones.
AdamGibbins··on Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account
You can, Homekit call it "Adaptive Lighting". It's not as flexible though, you just turn it on and Apple does what it wants - there's no variables you can fiddle with if you don't like what its doing.
AdamGibbins··on Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software
I don't use Android anymore but when I did I found the GitJournal app worked well to sync with git, then you could open the files with Obsidian.

That predates plugins being native on mobile apps however, so the built in Obsidian Git plugin might be better now.

AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: Suing Facebook in small claims?
You honestly don't need one in the UK, filing small claims via the governments site is very easy. They'll auto send a demand letter for you etc. https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money
AdamGibbins··on YouTube, the jewel of the internet
You can subscribe to youTube channel pages via RSS. I do this when I don't want to miss a channels videos.
AdamGibbins··on ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license
My Arq backup lifetime license is 7 years to the date tomorrow, still getting all updates.
AdamGibbins··on Apple passwords deserve an app
Edit: Removed initial comment, confused my iOS faults.

Keychain its current configuration is risky, given its coupled to your iPhone password which many people frequently enter in a public setting. One shoulder surf followed by a phone theft and they've unlocked everything - including your iCloud account (which you can change the password on using iPhone password only).

AdamGibbins··on Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)
I disabled that as it has some very confusing and undesired behaviour. For example if you're listening to Spotify on your Mac, then get a call on your iPhone you hit pause on your keyboard media keys so you can pick up the call - and it hangs up.
AdamGibbins··on GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
I use Paypal a fair bit to pay via Amex in the UK, where the underlying store doesn't take Amex but does Paypal. No complaints there.
AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Check LoseIt or Litesum, much more polished app than MFP. Lots in the US seem to rate Cronometer but in the UK its database is terrible.
AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: Where to buy cheap but good quality glasses in Europe?
Good to know thanks, I'm in London so might give them a go sometime.
AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: Where to buy cheap but good quality glasses in Europe?
Where do you find places with specific lenses? Basically nowhere in the UK seems to call out their lense quality from what I've seen - perhaps I'm just looking in the wrong places. Are you ringing each optician up individually and asking them?
AdamGibbins··on Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client
Drew (sourcehut guy) wrote the original from the look of it, but that's now unmaintained and this is a fork: https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc
AdamGibbins··on macOS Free and Open-Source Security Tools by Objective-See
That's a poor characterisation, I'm not convinced any developer can say with 100% certainty they've never missed anything in the release notes of their dependencies or had any unexpected behaviour in changes that made it to production. Mistakes happen.
AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
They're great, been paying them since Google Reader shutdown. Can't fault, great service.
AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: Is RSS dying? Or coming back?
You can with NewsBlur: https://blog.newsblur.com/2016/07/01/newsletters-in-your-new...
AdamGibbins··on How far can you go by train in 5h?
That's being fixed in theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Rail
AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
Hit F5.
AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: Updates on Jetbrains Fleet?
Legally speaking yes, practically speaking however it was in St Petersburg. Their Prague office was tiny in comparison aiui, I wonder if they've since relocated.
AdamGibbins··on DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
Increased energy prices absolutely impacts current hardware, especially given older hardware tends to be more energy intensive.
AdamGibbins··on DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
> Hardware costs are always dropping, there's no reason for this other than greed.

They're not though, there's a load of world happenings currently resulting in chipset shortages and increased energy pricing etc in many parts of the world.

AdamGibbins··on Ask HN: Is Pinboard Down?
Still down. Gives me a chance to try https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
AdamGibbins··on My essential Firefox fixes in 2022
For you maybe, its never crashed for me, I still have tabs going back to early 2020.
AdamGibbins··on FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
https://www.craft.do/ I assume you're referring to this, took a bit of googling.
AdamGibbins··on Google turned me into a serial killer
In many countries you can't sue for defamation as easily as you appear to be able to the US. In the UK its required that you demonstrate loss or reputational damage, given how obvious it is that this is a mistake and the speed in which it was fixed, I think its highly unlikely to stand up in court. Simply calling someone a name isn't enough.

OP appears to be in Switzerland, where I'm not familiar with the laws.

AdamGibbins··on Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app
That's been dead for years, replaced with https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ which is replaced with https://nvultra.com/
AdamGibbins··on The Queen has more power over British law than we thought
Since 1993 when she volunteered to do so supposedly.
AdamGibbins··on Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
Are you talking about the analytics? Which most package managers have. You can easily disable it: https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics#opting-out
Page 1 of 16Next →